Klarinet Archive - Posting 000108.txt from 2009/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:08:40 -0500

On 5 Feb, Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org> wrote:

> Are you seriously suggesting he changed clarinets to switch reeds as th=
e
> primary motivating factor in switching to the B-flat????????

Yes.

The mystery to be explained is why, given that the passage 'lies' more ea=
sily
and naturally on the A rather than the Bb Ottensteiner, M=FChlfeld nevert=
heless
switched.

I thought about it a lot in the 2000 thread, and eventually came to the
conclusion, as a player of both Ottensteiner and Boehm instruments, that =
that
was the most plausible explanation.

Of course, modern players may well make a different choice. In fact, I'm=

concerned to ALLOW them that choice, rather than make spurious arguments =
as
to what they SHOULD do. (I'm against 'shoulds', as other contributors he=
re
will tell you.)

So you see that my whole beef with you is to do with what I see as a misu=
se
of science in this argument.

Still, you're obviously scientifically literate; you might like to explai=
n to
your little friend on the list why 'power' (dimensions M(L^2)T^(-3)),
although not subtle enough to capture the situation entirely, isn't an
entirely inappropriate quantity to be looking to be able to increase in
'sempre crescendo'.

Apropos the 'other' dispute, revisit the thread on the BBoard. As I said=

there, "I've never encountered such a wriggler."

Tony
--=20

_________ Tony Pay
|ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd
| |ay Oxford OX2 6RE
tel/fax 01865 553339
mobile +44(0)7790 532980 tony.p@-----.org

... A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

------------------------------------------------------------------
The 2009 Woodwind.Org Donation Drive is going on right now - see
https://secure.donax-us.com/donation/ for more information.
------------------------------------------------------------------